Du Page County centennial music festival Wheaton - Aug. 5 – Historic Poster Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Du Page County centennial music festival Wheaton - Aug. 5, a vintage poster rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Du Page County centennial music festival Wheaton - Aug. 5
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A silkscreen poster for an August 5 music festival in Wheaton, Illinois, it promotes a community event tied to a Du Page County centennial celebration. Its design reflects the Federal Art Project, the New Deal arts program under the Works Progress Administration, which commissioned posters like this one to advertise public events and to employ artists during the Depression. Silkscreen, a stencil-based printing method, let designers produce bright, flat areas of color in short runs at low cost. A date stamp on the back, September 1939, records when the poster was processed into the collection, a detail that helps researchers trace how these posters were circulated and kept.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Sep 7 1939. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Music festivals--Illinois--Wheaton--1930-1940. Centennial celebrations--Illinois--Du Page County--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,789 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 313_Du_Page_County_centenni_1936 |
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